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Pre-Conference Session
Unleashing the Power of SeamlessM4T
Scaling Speech Translation for Enhanced Communication
04 October 2023, 13:00 to 17:00
Little America Hotel, Salt Lake City (USA)
About the Tutorial
Recent advancements in deep learning have revolutionized speech technology, enabling applications like voice assistants, language interpretation services, transcription services and many more. By breaking down language barriers and facilitating seamless communication, speech-to-speech and speech-to-text translation open new doors for global collaboration, improve accessibility, and enhance cross-cultural interactions.
- What will you learn?
Building practical knowledge of how these models work
Providing various strategies for effectively integrating them into your services
Optimization techniques to enhance data utilization and model performance, especially in low compute scenarios.
Join us in this tutorial to stay up to date with the latest developments in speech technology and unlock the full potential of scaling speech translation, enabling effective communication in an interconnected world.
Speakers
Sravya Popuri
Research Engineer
Meta AI
Changhan Wang
Research Engineer
Meta AI
Maha Elbayad
Research Scientist
Meta AI
Who should attend
This tutorial aims to empower language service providers (LSPs) and practitioners to tap into the cutting-edge advancements in speech translation models.
Agenda
Time
Session Title
Speaker/s
1:00 pm
Setting the Stage:
Workshop Introduction and Overview
Sravya Popuri
1:15 pm
Exploring the Landscape of Speech Translation in localization : An Insight into seamlessM4T and its applications
- Landscape components: model builders, prompting environments, data pipelines, leaderboards.
- Ecosystems (OpenAI & Microsoft, Nvidia, Meta, Hugging Face, others).
- Open-source models to adapt.
Sravya Popuri
1:35 pm
A Behind-the-Scenes Look : Unveiling the training process of SeamlessM4T
- SeamlessAlign
- Deep dive on model architecture
- Evaluation framework
Changhan Wang and Maha Elbayad
2:20 pm
Coffee Break
2:30 pm
Interactive session
- Hands-on tutorial to run inference and finetune
- Q&A
Changhan Wang, Maha Elbayad and Sravya Popuri
4:45 pm
Closing remarks
Changhan Wang / Maha Elbayad
Registration & Location
The workshop will be held at the Little America Hotel in Salt Lake City, on Wednesday 4 October 2023 (the pre-conference day of the TAUS Annual Conference).
Get in touch to find out more about group discounts.
Note that Pre-conference Sessions are not included in the TAUS Annual Conference registration fee.
Pre-Conference Session
Unleashing the Power of SeamlessM4T
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Registration for 1 person.
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